10 Fighters Who Were Unexpectedly Great After “Fluke” Wins
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Ever seen an upset so shocking that you thought there was no way it could be anything other than a Fluke? Well a lot times that is in fact the case but for these fights, it turned out to be way more important than that.
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When I saw the thumbnail I thought “I wonder my Dricus vs Rob isn’t the thumbnail” Tommy immediately mentioned it 😭😭
They'd rather use a thumbnail that generates outrage to fuel clicks
@@patternsintheivy1yea, it’s a youtube channel… that’s kinda the point
@@patternsintheivy1yeah it’s all about psychology
@@cosmicbricks3339wrong-o “ it’s all about the monayyy “ -Vince McMahon
“Because…. It’s Bellator.” That shit had my dying.
Honorable mention to Jan, who was the underdog in 10 of his last 14 fights, and went 10-3-1 in that period, which included getting the championship off the man everybody though beat Jon Jones, defending against a then undefeated Izzy and getting a draw against the surging Ankalaev who looked like the future of the division.
Ironically, 2 of those 3 loses came at the rare time he was a favorite, against Glover and Alex.
Bro I'm always surprised how Jan is ALWAYS the underdog, and the rare times he isn't an underdog he is just barely a 60/40 favorite. And he goes out there and walks them down
Agreed, Jan is legit.
He knocked out former middleweight champ Luke Rockhold b4 all that as well
Griffen beat Rua with cardio and Rampage with leg kicks. Guy was a cardio kickboxer of the highest level.
But no one can forget what Anderson Silva did to him.
Made him look amateur.
I always remember Frankie Edgar was on an old Mtv show called True Life which usually focused on people with odd or weird situations. For example, one kid said he was straight but did gay porn for money, just to give you an idea for how outlandish Mtv thought MMA was at that time. They showed him driving like an hour to and from the gym, and he had that fire in him back then. Not much longer, he started getting more famous and it just stuck with me that I got to see an all time great long before they made it big. Kinda cool.
Anthony Pettis was on that show too
@@whathappy6052bro first mma fight I ever seen was IFL Chris hordecki fought some guy don’t even remember but I thought it was the most absurd shit in the world
@@whathappy6052 Pettis was on world of jenks not true life
@@whathappy6052 Oh really?? Man, I missed his. I have to youtube it now lol. Good look.
5:51 Seeing Leon Edwards and "George Masdival" sitting right next to each other with no issues at a press conference is, well... something 😅
I seriously love this idea for a list. It's one I kind of wanted to see for a bit however I envisioned it being called "Top 10 Times Title Reigns were Legitamized"
Cause one of the reocurring things I've noticed watching these videos is the amount of times fighters won a Title but were buried or not given respect for the win for one reason or another. However they later on legitamize themselves with either impressive performances or doing something no one expected. Aljo, Frankie & Amanda were ones that definitely came to mind.
I am 0:55 into this video and I am shocked. I remember being around 12, flipping between channels and turning to Belletor on Spike. I remember witnessing the spinning backhand live and freaking out, I still show it around to this day. I thought I was the only one who still remembers it, but I should have known Tommy would be on it lol my #1 reason for subscribing on day 1, and the reason Im still a subscriber💯🤙
"Like and subscribe to dodge a weird headbutt to the hip from Dricus Du Plessis" bro I'm mid drink stop LMAO
For me it will always be TJ Dillashaw against Renan Barao. What a huge step up that guy took after that Assuncao fight.
Gotta question every single win on TJ’s resume after that PED failure
His energizer bunny level of activity is now clearly from EPO, but TJ over Berao was a bigger deal than Conor over Jose in my opinion. It was a thorough beating, TJ outclassed Renan and nobody saw that coming
@@anthonycamacho3816Cody Garbrandt was dumb enough to admit in his pre fight presser that TJ "showed everyone at team Alpha Male how to take EPO" and then I remember Paige Vanzant was with Alpha Male early on, and she was known for bulldozing thru girls while paige was much smaller physically than she is now. That Secret Juice.
A lot of people were arguing that Bararo was the goat at 135 at the time as well. Barao dropped off hard after that fight & the rematch, so it's hard for more modern fans to envision, but back in 2013/14 he had a crazy aura around him.
Honestly after beating Robert i didn't really have that many doubts about his next fights
Aljamain Sterling being the greatest bantamweight of all time was the most bizarre narrative I seen floating around in recent years.
He’s probably #2 or #3 honestly
Yeah, I feel this one. I’m convinced he was used to push some kind of jiu jitsu agenda (nothing against it) for a lot of people when discussing his run. Might genuinely be the 3rd best off resume and pedigree if you don’t look too closely
It was purely off resume, not how he performed during those fights.
Legitimately one of the worst champs of all time imo
@@CaleebTalibOnly champ to win by DQ and robbery decisions after lol
People forget Leon clearly won the first round against Usman. He took him down with a beautiful trip and threatened submissions...
Was looking for this. Thank you.
yup... he just gassed because of the high altitude
Leon was getting mauled in that fight.
Good first round otherwise, he was getting messed up…
@@desean3402no, he was not. He was clearly losing, but his wrestling defense was superb and he barely got hit by Usman because he's very good at rolling with punches against the cage. Tim Boetsch vs Yushin Okami is an example of someone getting mauled before a comeback. Losing a fight and getting mauled are two completely different things.
mustve been me with that easily impressed child mind but when forrest was coming up i was a huge fan mainly because dude was hilarious i remember being so happy when he was doing promos and commercials for UFC after retirement dude is really a LEGEND
Love that Simpsons throw back "Yvan eht nioj"!
Frankie Edgar Vs bj penn. I remember telling people to bet the house on Penn. He had won his last few looking like psychopath. Finishing the unfinishable in Diego sanchez and leaving people of pools of blood every time. Then Frankie comes out and squeezed by. Then beats him soundly. Then that awesome set of fights with Gray where it looked like he was down and out ( people were calling for a 10-7 in the first round) unbelievable career
“It didn’t. It did not set in.” This has me rolling. Tommy with the classic lines. 😂😂
That random "yvaN eht nioJ" at the end really caught me off guard, lmao.
Hey you, join the navy!
I'll always defend the Sterling title win as nobody forced Yan to knee him full force in the face. It was good to see him have a decent title reign
I always wanted to know what the dudes thought should happen when they proclaimed "you shouldn't win the title on a DQ"
Should the belt be vacated and an immediate rematch booked?
Thanks for the video
Aljo is a terrible example of this,he has the most asterisk’d championship run of all time
"Asterisk" is what you call this symbol -> *
Astrick is what your mom does for your dad
@@GengoSenmon thank you
I feel like Aljo isn’t a great example of this, if anything he’s the exact opposite. Every title win he had has an asterisk next to it and he has come up short against serious uncompromised competition.
This 100%. Not trying to hate on Aljo, but the title + thumbnail in this video is actually insane.
He ran through Sandhagen and Kattar pretty recently. I also had him winning the rematch against Yan
@@patternsintheivy1 right? Like I was hoping for him to make a legacy out of a farce. It’s not like he hasn’t achieved some sort of greatness he was still champ and is clearly elite, but he’s not at the skill level that a reign as long as his would imply.
Only one has a true asterisk
@@patternsintheivy1 his title run was just supremely cursed
Based on the thumbnail, we all know which entry on this list was the "HOT TAEK" to drive engagement...
I remember loving the Emmanuel Newton run. Was great to see a guy that just seemed so normal and journeymanlike go on a run like that
Prime Urijah Faber is what got me into MMA. It was awesome watching him back then
I think you might’ve forgotten to mention that Usman had beaten Leon previously. They’ve fought 3 times
Leon was overlooked vs Kamaru because he had already lost to him, so it seemed like the same thing was going to happen.
Seriously? Nobody’s gonna mention the hobbit video when referencing Dominic Cruz around 7:10?! Absolutely Pitch Perfect troll job! I had to go back like four times…
Bro is Mike brown Arnold Allen’s secret dad ?😭😭
Fighting Dricus must be like Elden Ring IRL. You're piecing him up for 4 rounds, thinkin "i'm so close I got this" then he just one shots you in round 4.
This video was great. Imma go join the navy now.
I didn’t know who Mike brown was until this video and I’ve been watching like a decade now
I feel like a lot of this no one expected stipe to beat werdum/ everyone was shocked he won all came after the fact. I don't remember anyone thinking it was shocking when it happened.
I expected stipe to win that one
Just a correction, Leon defeating Usman by decision was their third encounter.
Great video guys. I'm off to join the navy.
Chris Weidman getting a KO out of Silva trying to Mock him then defending the title 3 times against Silva,Machida and Belfort is certainly up there
The Frankie Entry. I thought the SAME THING!!!
MMA On Point comes correct each time out! Love the channel 💯💯
“Yvan eht nioj.” - Our lord and savior, Tommy Toe Hold, 2024
Mike Brown was a beast, and such a underdog literally no one thought he was gonna beat the Cali Kid
It's sad that he's been kind of forgotten because his best run happened in the WEC. He's absolutely amongst the handful of all time greats at featherweight.
Aljo being called great is honestly a joke imo. Title win by an oscar performance followed by 2 razor closer split decisions and a one armed opponent. Its literally like the part of Jones’ career if you only count his fights with Reyes and the first fight with Gustaffson
So you’re just going to ignore everything good he’s done in his career because you’re holding a grudge that he took the title off a guy that you like??
@@tolliSTFU No, he has done great things. Taking Henry and Yan to a split decision is no small feat. And he chocked out Cory. But he is far from being great. In fact, there is no ‘great’ bantamweight except maybe Cruz
Should put Juliana Pena on this list. She a legend
I still don't understand how people slept on Nunes. I thought she was going to be the one to dethrone rousey. It ended up being Holm but I knew Nunes was going to walk through everyone in the Bantam weight division.
Sometimes "MMA math" goes wrong. I think it's because Nunes lost to Cat and Ronda submitted Cat in the first round with ease. The other half is, of course, marketing.
While Holly Holm exposed Ronda's underdeveloped striking, Holm losing the belt to Miesha Tate, a former Strikeforce champion who herself couldn't beat Ronda on her worst day, solidified Nunes' initial underdog image against both, Ronda and Miesha.
Funniest thing about this is that grappling-heavy Miesha Tate lost to Nunes via submission, something that Amanda wasn't exactly known for, but neither woman was the grappling ace of Ronda's caliber.
I expected her to dethrone Ronda but I never expected her to flatline Cyborg truly GOAT of Women MMA
Lol that Dana clip about Fedor could be easily applied to Jon Jones today. This man really has no shame.
I have this strange urge to join the Navy.
I will not Join the Navy!! Damn simpsons references
what's with the sleeper agent phrase at the end lol
When you win the belt, nothing changes except the belt, but all of your skills get 30% better. Crazy stat, but true 90% of the time it's true.
Actually, Faber broke both of his hands in the Brown rematch and many fans still saw him as the better fighter afterwards despite losing.
I feel like I should start betting. Been watching UFC since you had to rent it on VHS. Last time I bet I got 10 out of 12 correct on a parlay.
He should’ve said the answer to “who is an all time great…” is The Answer
You guys missed Brandon Moreno...I didn't think he'd ever in a million years be champ specially after being cut before
I understand why TJ is in there but his CEO of EPO status taints his while run for me. Great video, keep up the great work... Just maybe don't convince Nunes she wants to become a video editor, ain't nobody ready for that kind of carnage!
Despite how his recent fight turned out, Weidman could also be considered for this list.
I always give the underdogs a chance so no upset surprised me in UFC history. The ONLY fight that seemed fishy was Pena vs Nunes. Almost seemed like a fixed fight.
Aljo absolutely does not deserve to be on this list, let alone at #4. He had a two split decisions with almost no damage, and TJ had a broken shoulder. It's since come out that TJ should have never been medically cleared for that fight in the first place.
I don't agree with that at all.
I clicked on this video just because I couldn't believe the title + Aljo in the thumbnail. He arguably lost to Cejudo coming out of retirement after years, and Aljo seemed to have a decent size advantage in that fight. Not to say Cejudo isn't an impressive win either way, but I think Aljo proved a lot more before he was champ than he did after receiving the belt.
Just proved the video correct
Why do I want to join the navy all of a sudden?
i expect Chael to be on here... and i expect the fact he dominated Yushin Okami to he forgotten
Am I the only one sitting here confused when he said Frankie Edgar was a relatively unknown at the time? Like no he absolutely wasn't, he had won six of his seven fights in the UFC and was already looking like the next guy in that division
Doesn’t ddp only have 1 title defense
Olives? He was overlooked by everyone
Why do I have a sudden urge to join the navy 😳
9 minutes 1000 views already sheesh
Ofc stepe had to come in this
people acting like aljo isn’t top 5 of this generation because petr yan actively decided to foul him even after being warned not to is crazy. y’all just hating to hate 😂
@1:10 Mo Lawals UFC run was stopped because he called an official from the Nevada State Athletic Commission a bitch.
9:42 Could be talking about Jon Jones right there Dana
Figured Nunes would come in at the top--perennial contender for pound for pound GOAT, no argument, and they did her so dirty with the marketing for the Rousey fight.
Lol did tommy say join the navy backwards?
9:31 JDS with hair kinda looks like Frank Mir....
More like the editor of this video Fluke Taylor.
It was their THIRD fight Tommy & Leon clearly won the first round.
Guessing thats whem dillashaw started using
Would love to see Tommy's brother 😂😂😂
I’ve just joined the navy
A little superliminal advertising at the end of the video, there
I still doubt Dricus has what it takes to defeat Strickland. The next time would be the first time.
They hyped up Ronda; then Nunez packs her up in 48 seconds and ships her off to WWE.
Only thing I really remember about Barão is being snuffed out by my boy Luke Sanders!!
I did think all of this for DDP from his fight against Brad. And I have recipes . Message saying if DDP beats Brad he will be champ
Proves that it wasn't a Fluke Tailor.
I see stipeee I click
Without watching I predict Leon Edwards as the number one on this video
The simpsons reference at the end 👌🏾
We all clicked because Aljo in the thumbnail lol.
No, because that would be gay. 🤔
Apparently not anymore
JOIN THE NAVY
lol are you not paying your editor? Why follow an editor. Pay the man.
Amanda x Luke is obviously the fight to make now
I all of a sudden want to join the navy!
Why do i suddenly wanna join the Navy?? 🤣🤣🤣 S12E14 iykyk lol
What an intro 😂😂😂
I deploy tomorrow! 😂
Its a bit hard for me to accept that Aljo is in Top-3 of this list, I'm not saying that Aljo is a bad fighter but for me he wouldn't even make top-5, its just my take...no hate👍🏼👍🏼
Sean Strickland had to be the inspiration for this video
We all know Nunes didnt beat Shevchenko she ran for 5 rounds and took more damage
Cant blame Valentina for being livid afterwards
The number one on this list couldn't beat a 15 year old who weighed 118 pounds and only had five months of training 😂
future number 1: Bilal
6:31 they fought 3 times bro I don’t think you seen usman already beat him
***dominated in Leon and Usman’s 3rd encounter
Never seen a fighter get more penalized for his opponent not knowing the rules than Aljo
method acting aside 👀
Brian Ebersole